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Although sick and tired of living in her latest apartment building where her father works as a building-super, Olivia Kidney doesn t necessarily want to move again because she has already moved so much in her young life and so simply wishes to finally be somewhere where she can settle in like everybody else.
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Gr. 4-6. Readers who think they are getting a story about a lonely girl living with her sweet but inept father, a super in a New York high-rise, will be partially right. But as soon as Olivia opens the doors of several apartments, she (and readers), enter full-blown fantasy worlds, where occupants live in rooms of glass or a tropical forest; one resident wears a lizard boa and another is a ghost. The apartments and the characters have stories of their own, and Potter manages to draw all the parts together into a cohesive whole that speaks to Olivia's abandonment issues (her mother has left; her brother is dead) and to the power of her imagination. There is so much going on here the story may be difficult for some children to handle; less would have been much more. But Potter, a first-time novelist, has a delightful way with words, and she offers picture-perfect descriptions of life in Olivia's curious building. The gray-wash pictures are also fun, focusing on the appealing Olivia. Ilene Cooper
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